Why is this man grumpy and bored? Find out during an interview with incarcerated filmmaker Jafar Panahi in ?This Is Not A Film.?

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The story about the making of the documentary "This Is Not A Film" is more intriguing than the movie itself. "This Is Not A Film" is essentially a 77-minute interview with Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi ("The White Balloon"), who is under house arrest in his apartment in Tehran and facing a prison sentence from the government because his work displeased the religious zealots who run his Persian homeland. Documentarian Mojtaba Mirtahmasb shot "This Is Not A Film" on an iPhone. He then transferred it to a flash stick. Next, the tiny device was hidden inside a cake, just like the old ...